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...leaders and business people, convened in Washington to discuss arrangements. That led to the formation of an organizing committee headed by Randall Robinson, executive director of the antiapartheid group TransAfrica; Lindiwe Mabuza, chief representative of the A.N.C. in the U.S.; and the singer Harry Belafonte. Long before Mandela left Johannesburg on June 4 for Botswana, the first stop on his tour, they were deluged with requests for appearances and meetings. So many of the entreaties were honored that two weeks ago A.N.C. leaders in the Zambian capital of Lusaka requested that the tour be pared down...
...uncovered a right- wing plot to murder Mandela, De Klerk and other figures. According to the paper, the plot was worked out by former Nazi Captain Heinrich Beissner, a regional head of the right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement. It called for Mandela to be shot by a sniper at Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport when he returned to South Africa on July 18. The Afrikaner group also allegedly planned to blow up power stations, assassinate Members of Parliament and poison the water supply to the black township of Soweto. Though the South African government did confirm that it had arrested...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Rome: Cathy Booth Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez
...easy to take over day-to-day control of the A.N.C. He has had to carry out his onerous public duties while being distracted by a family crisis. Last month the reputation of his controversial wife Winnie was further damaged when her former chief bodyguard was convicted in a Johannesburg court of murdering a teenage black activist. The judge found that the youth had been beaten at the Mandelas' Soweto home in Winnie's presence. Mandela said the government was smearing his wife in court without giving her a hearing...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Rome: Cathy Booth Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez